Contributions to loss across the magnetopause during an electron dropout event

H George, G Reeves, G Cunningham… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dropout events are dramatic decreases in radiation belt electron populations that can occur
in as little as 30 minutes. Loss to magnetopause due to a combination of magnetopause …

On the two approaches to incorporate wave‐particle resonant effects into global test particle simulations

AS Lukin, AV Artemyev, XJ Zhang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Energetic electron dynamics in the Earth's radiation belts and near‐Earth plasma sheet are
controlled by multiple processes operating on very different time scales: from storm‐time …

Climatological predictions of the auroral zone locations driven by moderate and severe space weather events

S Maffei, JWB Eggington, PW Livermore, JE Mound… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Auroral zones are regions where, in an average sense, aurorae due to solar activity are
most likely spotted. Their shape and, similarly, the geographical locations most vulnerable to …

Modeling the effects of drift orbit bifurcation on radiation belt electrons

J Huang, W Tu, WW Eshetu - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Drift orbit bifurcation (DOB) has been suggested to play a major role in the loss and transport
of radiation belt electrons since it violates the second adiabatic invariants of particles and …

Time‐varying magnetopause reconnection during sudden commencement: Global MHD simulations

JWB Eggington, RT Desai, L Mejnertsen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In response to a solar wind dynamic pressure enhancement, the compression of the
magnetosphere generates strong ionospheric signatures and a sharp variation in the …

[HTML][HTML] Earth's Geomagnetic Environment—Progress and Gaps in Understanding, Prediction, and Impacts

HJ Opgenoorth, R Robinson, CM Ngwira… - Advances in Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding of Earth's geomagnetic environment is critical to mitigating the space
weather impacts caused by disruptive geoelectric fields in power lines and other conductors …

Response timescales of the magnetotail current sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Global MHD simulations

JWB Eggington, JC Coxon, RM Shore… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The response of the Earth's magnetotail current sheet to the external solar wind driver is
highly time-dependent and asymmetric. For example, the current sheet twists in response to …

Electron scattering due to asymmetric drift‐orbit bifurcation: Geometric jumps of adiabatic invariant

SR Kamaletdinov, AV Artemyev… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Radial transport of energetic electrons is one of the key processes responsible for the
variability of the outer radiation belt. This transport amounts to a violation of the drift motion …

[HTML][HTML] The challenge to understand the zoo of particle transport regimes during resonant wave-particle interactions for given survey-mode wave spectra

O Allanson, D Ma, A Osmane, JM Albert… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Quasilinear theories have been shown to well describe a range of transport phenomena in
magnetospheric, space, astrophysical and laboratory plasma “weak turbulence” scenarios. It …

The structure of the cusp diamagnetic cavity and test particle energization in the GAMERA global MHD simulation

BL Burkholder, K Nykyri, X Ma… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrons with energies≥ 40 keV can be found at low density in many different regions of
Earth's magnetosphere. A litany of fundamental questions in space physics have focused on …